Questions regarding the "Achievement Grind Contest"

[Aelobin]

I noticed that you (Shane) locked the "Achievement Grind Contest" thread with only a vague post. So because of that, I have a few questions that I'm forced to ask here instead:

First off, 2 out of the 4 people that submitted for this competition were botting.

I never received any PM saying I had won anything, so does that mean you're accusing me of botting? I levelled my character "Tenpoints" from 1 to 10 by only killing mobs:
- First Mottled Boars
- Then Scorpid Workers & Vile Familiars
- Then Dire Mottled Boars & Clattering Scorpids
- Then Northwatch Sharpshooters & Northwatch Marines
- Followed by Foaming Sea Elementals
- Some Armored Scorpids & Bloodtalon Taillashers
- A few Elder Mottled Boars & Venomtail Scorpids
- And finally the Burning Blade Fanatics & Burning Blade Apprentices in the cave next to Orgrimmar
- I then dinged level 10 which you can see in this screenshot where both me and my pet are transformed from killing those mobs.
Why did I level like that? As you can probably tell from the name of my character, I only intended to get 10 achievement points in case there weren't 3 or more contestants. For that reason, I didn't do any quests or loot anything to avoid getting the achievements associated with such actions.

That leaves only 2 people in competition. So, instead of giving prizes to just one individual

This doesn't make sense. The original contest had 3 separate prizes (1st = 2 gamecards, 2nd = 1 gamecard, 3rd = blizz store pet), so I don't see how some contestants cheating would change the prizes for those that didn't.

I will just give a 30 day gamecard to both of the individuals that did not cheat.

It would be nice if you announced who the winners were rather than leaving it so anonymous

 

[Thor]

He has a point.

 

[Myrm]

I meant to say that I would be giving each person a 60 day gamecard. Did not have my coffee yet when I wrote that.

I am not the biggest fan of people just trying to do the bare minimum to get a prize. You say it yourself, that you were just edging on a competition that was never really happening.

Nonetheless, I will honor my prize setup. I will just give both you and rsq a 60 day gamecard.

The code will be in your PM box in the next couple of hours.

- Shane

 

[Aelobin]

I was more bothered about the potential botting accusation and disappearing prizes. My character was just meant as a little joke whilst there was only 1 other entry in the contest, so don't worry about sending me anything (or if you've already bought it then feel free to keep it for another contest or give it to rsq since he's more deserving).

 

[Myrm]

Prizes have been sent out to Aelobin and rsq.